There is no more delightful and endearing game show host than Alex Trebek who, at a sprightly 77 years old, has spent 34 years captaining Jeopardy.

Naturally, he’s got a lot of stories to tell and, in an interview with The Daily Beast commemorating his tenure on the series, Trebek recalled one particularly delicious tale that is rather un-Trebek-like.

“I had just arrived in California and went to a friend’s house for dinner, and there were brownies,” he said. “I love brownies — I’m a chocoholic — and I didn’t realize that they were hash brownies. And… whoa. That threw me for a loop. I took down about a half-dozen. The dinner party was on a Friday, and I was not able to leave that house until Sunday afternoon. I spent the next day and a half in bed. It was not a good trip, and I have not done any of that stuff since!”

It’s the sort of story from the hazy ’70s you’d expect your dad to tell you, but, Trebek noted, it wasn’t intentional.